It's time for Klinsmann to be let go*

[KurtRambis4]

*

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Pathetic performance.

 

[patdog]

Didn't even watch. But yes. He lost the team a long time ago. With World Cup qualifying starting next month, we can't afford to keep him on. I know he has a big buyout (thanks Sunil Gulati for giving him a 4-year extension BEFORE last year's World Cup). But if we don't bite the bullet and do what has to be done, we're going to struggle to even qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

 

[esplanade91]

Hard to let him go when he's the president of American soccer.

He's an amazing coach. No one on planet earth could win or play like he does with 10 67 year olds in the lineup, but that's also his problem. He is loyal to people he doesn't "need to coach" if that makes sense. We have possibly one of the best/youngest teams in the world and JK hasn't played ANY of the young guys leading to the cup. It's infuriating.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

So who's the Shump of Team USA?

 

[patdog]

He's not president of US soccer. Sunil Gulati is. And these great young players you're talking about lost 2-0 to Honduras in the semi-finals of Olympic qualifying this weekend, so now we have to beat Columbia in a playoff match in Rio to even qualify for the Olympics. US soccer is a shambles right now. And with Klinnsman's handling of the Fabian Johnson injury, I'm sure club teams are going to be just jumping at the chance for their players to play for him in International matches.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

There is so much fail in your post I don't even know where to start.

 

[RickyWadePhilpotDVM]

Brendan Rogers is free.

*

Ancelotti is too

 

[patdog]

Ha. That was pretty funny.

 

[esplanade91]

Excuse me. Technical director.

He has two conflicting jobs.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I don't agree with this at all. Our problem is not the fact that we play older players, it's the fact that we are atrocious on offence and build up. We don't sustain possession long enough (in most games) and when we do we have trouble finding that one striker who can put that ball in the back of the damn net. Every other country has its own "style" of soccer and we just simply don't. Other countries train their players from youth to play a certain style and it reflects that style all the way up to the national team. Our youth are trained in so many different styles its amazing. Then they have to take on the style of whatever coach they have at the next level. You lose consistency, balance, and shape when this happens. To me, shape is the most important aspect of team development. Be in the right place at the right time.

It's frustrating to watch this team because they are unorganized and playing a "German" style of soccer means you need to be extremely organized in the attack and let the ball do the work. And have a sound defense who can win 50/50's. Which is why Germany is my favorite team to watch. They engineer their soccer with perfection and we don't.

I'm frustrated with this team and I'm worried we don't qualify for the world cup. There's my rant.

 

[patdog]

It also doesn't help that we play very different lineups from game to game, even when building right up to important competitions. We played a center back pairing in the Confederations Cup play-in game that hadn't played together in a year. And it cost us. Again.

I agree about US youth soccer. It's a mess. Almost as if we decided to intentionally design the worst possible system to develop talent. But there's a lot of money to be made by the coaches of these travelling teams, so I don't see it changing.

 

[KurtRambis4]

The bigger problem

is not who we play, but where we play them.

Klinsmann has completely fouled this up, after having a pretty good WC run. He continues to put guys out of position and forces crap out of them.

 

[patdog]

True. It's almost like he takes a deck of cards of all his available players, randomly picks 11 of them, throws them up in the air and plays them in the formation they land in.

 

[CEO2044]

I really wasn't a fan of his hiring. I thought it was wrong how they did Bob Bradley, and still do. I'd have rather stayed with him.

Based on Klinsmann's own assessment of the job Bradley did, he should be let go. And it should be a lesson to those that think a foreign background gives someone an advantage.